Kresge Physical Sciences Libraryhttps://krescook.wordpress.com
and Cook Mathematics CollectionTue, 16 May 2017 09:42:03 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.com/https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/ea448834885c5d02d32f80cf6a4ff7e1?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.pngKresge Physical Sciences Libraryhttps://krescook.wordpress.com
New Exhibit: Collages by Peresadahttps://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/new-exhibit-collages-by-peresada/
https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/new-exhibit-collages-by-peresada/#respondMon, 17 Oct 2016 19:07:52 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5660]]>Let the warm and inviting artwork of Peresada welcome you in to Kresge Physical Sciences Library at Dartmouth College. Each of her unique collages contain recycled and found materials. The artist sees the world in repositioned images where simplicity and balance dominate. Peresada studied at RAA, apprenticed with Italian master teacher Benediccio Ferrala, and worked with artist Olzhevski for eight years. Her collages have been sold to private collectors. We are very pleased to showcase them in our library.Filed under: Exhibits, For Fun, Kresge]]>https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/new-exhibit-collages-by-peresada/feed/0peresedampironeperesedaCheck out our new “one pager” guides!https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/check-out-our-new-one-pager-guides/
https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/check-out-our-new-one-pager-guides/#respondWed, 13 Jul 2016 17:47:11 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5651]]>Take a look at Kresge Library’s new “one pager” guides to doing research in the physical sciences. Created by subject librarians in Kresge, each guide focuses on one discipline and includes links to important resources such as databases, eBook collections, and research guides, as well as links to some important library services.

Guides are available on the Guides & Research Help page of the Kresge Library website in the following subjects:

The one page guides will be especially useful to students majoring in any of the physical sciences. For further information, please contact a subject librarian.

Filed under: Kresge]]>https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/check-out-our-new-one-pager-guides/feed/0katieharding14OpenCon 2016 – Registration is open!https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/06/06/opencon-2016-registration-is-open/
https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/06/06/opencon-2016-registration-is-open/#respondMon, 06 Jun 2016 12:23:55 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5642]]>Registration is open for OpenCon 2016! OpenCon is the student and early career academic professional conference on Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data that will be held in Washington DC on November 12-14, 2016.

The three day conference includes keynotes, panel discussions, workshops, and hackathons to help participants build skills in key areas—from raising institutional awareness to coordinating national-level campaigns effectively. Attendance to OpenCon is by application only, which helps ensure a diverse, representative, and active group of participants at this unique conference.

If you are interesting in attending this year, simply apply to OpenCon 2016. OpenCon offers travel scholarships to select participants to help offset the costs of attending this important conference.

In addition, Dartmouth College Library is pleased to offer one travel grant for a graduate student (PhD or Masters), post-doc, or early career faculty or staff to attend OpenCon 2016.

If you are interested in being considered for the Dartmouth travel grant, please follow these steps:

Apply to OpenCon 2016, using the application available on their website. Please save your responses as they will be needed for the Dartmouth travel grant.

Filed under: Kresge]]>https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/06/06/opencon-2016-registration-is-open/feed/0opencon2016loraleligdonopencon2016Award for Library Research at the Wetterhahn Symposiumhttps://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/award-for-library-research-at-the-wetterhahn-symposium/
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Participating in the Wetterhahn Science Symposium? Submit an essay on your library research process for a chance to win a $125 or $100 prize! Submissions are due on Monday, May 23rd. Check here for complete information.

Check out the Wetterhahn Symposium website for full information on registration, poster prep, and the keynote speaker.

Filed under: Kresge]]>https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/award-for-library-research-at-the-wetterhahn-symposium/feed/0callforstudentsloraleligdoncallforstudentsarXiv needs your feedback!https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/arxiv-needs-your-feedback/
https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/arxiv-needs-your-feedback/#respondThu, 07 Apr 2016 15:09:04 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5576]]>In 2016 arXiv will celebrate its 25th anniversary. As it approaches this milestone, arXiv is seeking users to complete a short survey. The results of this survey will help arXiv to improve and develop its vision and plan for the future. The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete and will not collect any information that can identify you. It will remain open until April 27th.

About arXiv: arXiv is a repository of article preprints hosted at Cornell University Library. It contains over 1 million preprints (or “e-prints”) in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics. For more information, see General Information about arXiv.

The major difference between Discrete Analysis and conventional journals is that rather than publishing and electronically hosting the articles on a journal website, the articles will be made available through arXiv, an open access digital repository where many mathematicians post their work already. This also simplifies the submission process. Mathematicians who have posted an article on arXiv need only provide their name, contact information, and the arXiv URL for their article to the Discrete Analysis submission system. At this point, the article undergoes a traditional peer review process. Accepted articles are published on arXiv and assigned DOIs, and links to the articles are organized on the Discrete Analysis website.

Additionally, Discrete Analysis is a completely open access journal. Articles are openly available to anyone at no cost and there are no article processing fees, so there are no costs for authors either. This is made possible by a relatively low cost of maintaining the journal of approximately $30 per accepted article which is covered by grant funding received by the journal.

The managing editor of Discrete Analysis is Timothy Gowers, a Fields Medalist and professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge. Gowers argues that since mathematicians routinely make their work available on arXiv before submitting to journals, the only important function left for journals to manage is peer review. Discrete Analysis takes advantage of low-cost, alternative options for article submission and publication, while maintaining a rigorous peer review process. The journal also includes some additional value-added features such as editorial introductions for articles and options for authors to update their articles, while maintaining a version of record.

The journal’s scope is described on its website:

“Discrete Analysis is a mathematical journal that aims to publish articles that are analytical in flavour but that also have an impact on the study of discrete structures. These include (all or parts of) harmonic analysis, ergodic theory, topological dynamics, growth in groups, analytic number theory, additive combinatorics, combinatorial number theory, extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, combinatorial geometry, convexity, metric geometry, and theoretical computer science.”

On Friday we wrapped up our tour of 30 research tools, sites, apps, and programs that we hope will improve your research workflow. While some tools may have been familiar or known, hopefully all the highlighted tools inspired you to review your workflow and investigate innovative ways to produce more open, efficient, and good science.

Each week of the series, we highlighted 5 tools for a specific phase of the research workflow – Discovery, Analysis, Writing, Publication, Outreach, and Assessment. However, these tools were just a small sampling of the hundreds of tools available. Need more options? Check out (and add to!) the comprehensive, crowdsourced spreadsheet of over 400+ tools and innovations. Our highlighted tools represented some of the trends, developments, opportunities, and challenges in scholarly communication.

Bosman and Kramer at Utrecht University in the Netherlands have led the research in changing research workflows and have shared some of their interesting results.

For the Discovery phase of the workflow, we highlighted OAIster, DataCite, CHORUS, F1000Prime, and Web of Science Analytics. Information discovery is increasingly dependent on social discovery tools, improved data discovery, and is moving towards aggregated full-text semantic search.

In the Analysis phase, HiveBench, CartoDB, rOpenSci, Plotly, and Jupyter were our tools for the week. These tools represent the trends of sharing & openness, and the challenge of reproducibility. One of our highlighted tools, Jupyter, had some amazing press this week – some of the LIGO Gravitational Wave Data is available in iPython Jupyter Notebooks!

To assist with your Writing workflow, we featured Authorea, Overleaf, Mendeley, Zotero, and WebCite. Collaborative online writing platforms have come a long way and are now being integrated with publication and assessment tools.

The Publication tools highlighted a trend that the library is passionate about: Open Access. GitHub, PeerJ, Sherpa Romeo, Creative Commons, and PlosOne were the tools chosen to increase openness in science and disrupt the traditional publishing status quo.

Google Scholar Citations, Academia.edu & ResearchGate, The Conversation, Slideshare, and FigShare are featured for the Outreach workflow. These tools build on the ideas of scholarly social connections, public access to research, and altmetrics.

We wrapped up last week’s Assessment tools with posts on Altmetrics, Eigenfactor, Scholarometer, Publons, and ImpactStory. Assessment is increasingly happening at the article level and now takes into account the societal relevance. New publishing models create innovative assessment opportunities!

We hope you are inspired to learn more about these tools and build your own research workflow! Looking for examples? Check out Kramer and Bosman’s suggestions below.

Thanks for following our series! Please take a moment to complete our survey. Your feedback is appreciated.

This idea was generally based on the following article, research website, and accompanying datacards:

Impactstory is an open-source, web-based tool that allows scientists to create profiles that more fully represent the complete range of their research products, and showcase the impact of their research in more diverse ways than the limited citation metrics of the past. Recognizing the changing nature of scientific publishing, ImpactStory allows researchers to represent research outputs including articles, datasets, software, webpages, slidedecks and posters. Profile metrics include article views, citations and downloads, tweets and saves, Wikipedia mentions and Facebook posts. (See this example of a researcher profile).

Get started! Once you’ve created a profile, you can add items one by one, or connect your profile to other platforms like Figshare, ORCID, Google Scholar, GitHub, Publons, and SlideShare. Once connected, new products that you upload to those platforms will automatically be added and tracked on your ImpactStory profile as well. ImpactStory can track metrics for products with any of the following identifiers: PubMed IDs, DOIs, URLs for GitHub repositories, Vimeo and Youtube videos, Slideshare slide decks, and webpages. You can control your own profile, highlighting selected works and key metrics, or deleting items you don’t want to show up there. Add an ImpactStory badge to your website or CV to connect viewers to your profile. You can download and reuse most Impactstory data (a small amount, like Scopus citation data, is proprietary) in either CSV or JSON format.

Created by altmetrics pioneers Jason Priem and Heather Piwowar in 2011, ImpactStory is a non-profit organization funded by the NSF, JISC, and Sloan Foundation. ImpactStory is not a free product, though the cost is modest – after a 30-day free trial, users pay a $60/year subscription fee.

30 Tools for 30 Days concludes with this post … you can look back at all six weeks’ worth of featured tools, and look forward to a wrap-up post and one last invitation from us next week!

Filed under: 30toolsfor30days, Kresge, Publishing Tagged: 30toolsfor30days]]>https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/26/day-30-impactstory-assessment/feed/0impactstory-logoquigleyjaneimpactstory-logoDay 29 – Publons (Assessment)https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/25/day-29-publons-assessment/
https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/25/day-29-publons-assessment/#respondThu, 25 Feb 2016 11:00:18 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5509]]>One of the quirks of scientific publishing is that a good part of the labor is unpaid and unrecognized – the peer review that scientists provide for one another, providing quality control, editorial services, and valuable commentary on new research. A researcher might spend hundreds of hours per year on this invisible work, without which the current system of scholarly publishing would collapse.

Publons provides a way for reviewers to get credit for their contributions. Researchers create profiles like this one on Publons and upload their pre- and post-publication reviews; the system verifies the reviews (a number of publishers work with Publons so that the verification process is streamlined), and researchers can then use their profiles to create and export verified reports of review contributions in a format they can include on their CVs, in promotion and funding applications. Scholars can control how each review is displayed on their profile (blind, open, or published) so reviewer anonymity is protected, where required.

Publons has a long-term goal of benefiting science by surfacing the valuable contributions that reviewers make to scientific research, ultimately improving the scientific research cycle by motivating and rewarding, through recognition, this essential work. A related goal is to encourage the sharing of peer reviews, discussion and commentary, so they can enrich scientific discourse, rather than vanish without a trace, as most reviews do now.

Other notable features:

a section that provides valuable resources for new reviewers, with advice from experienced reviewers, examples, and a list of external resources

a quarterly rewards program for top reviewers with prizes like credits for Amazon Web Services or a license for Manuscripts, a writing and editing software.

The goal is to turn peer review into a visible, recognized, and rewarded research activity for the benefit of scientists and science.

Scholarometer (in beta) is a tool that computes metrics for evaluating the impact of an individual author in a discipline, using the widely adopted h-index* and a variation, the hs-index that has been normalized for differences among disciplines. It’s a social (crowdsourcing) tool that combines citation data from Google Scholar with a visualization capability that shows networks between authors and research disciplines – possibly a new way to find potential collaborators, referees, members of grant panels and so on.

Here’s how it works: start by installing the Scholarometer sidebar extension to your Firefox or Chrome browser. Find an author by their Google Scholar ID or by name (first and middle initials and last name works best; there’s an advanced search too). Add a tag denoting the author’s research discipline (e.g., chemistry, organic) from a standardized list. Scholarometer goes out and fetches that author’s articles and citation data from Google Scholar, and returns a neat tally of total number of articles, total number of citations, h index, and the ‘Scholarometer percentile’ which is computed with respect to other scholars in the tagged discipline.

* The h-index is a measure of an author’s overall or lifetime scholarly impact; it is a number n such that the author has published n papers each of which has been cited n or more times – the higher the number, the more highly-cited papers that author has published.

Eigenfactor metrics use information from the citation network to measure the importance of each journal, much as Google’s PageRank algorithm measures the importance of websites. It accounts for the fact that citations are not all created equal – that is, a citation from Science should count for more than a citation from the Journal of Underwater Basket Weaving, as Phil Davis memorably says in his blog post.

Eigenfactor Metrics consist of two scores, the Eigenfactor score and the Article Influence score.

The Eigenfactor Score calculation is based on the number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in one year, but it also considers which journals have contributed these citations so that highly cited journals will influence the network more than lesser cited journals. References from one article in a journal to another article from the same journal are removed, so that Eigenfactor Scores are not influenced by journal self-citation.

The Article Influence determines the average influence of a journal’s articles over the first five years after publication. It is calculated by dividing a journal’s Eigenfactor Score by the number of articles in the journal, – a ratio of a journal’s citation influence to the size of the journal’s article contribution over a period of five years.
– from Journal Citation Report‘s Help pages (Eigenfactor metrics are included alongside JCR’s impact factor metrics)

Free of charge, the journal ranking site at Eigenfactor.org provides the Eigenfactor metrics for every journal in the Thomson-Reuters Journal Citation Reports database since 1996. You can search for individual journals, rank journals by field (their ‘ISI category’) and track changes in influence over time – see this example for the Journal of Neuroscience.

The Eigenfactor project is a grant-funded research initiative begun in 2007 by two researchers at the University of Washington, Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West. Among their other research projects, the two study the sociology of science, scholarly publishing, and the structure and visualization of scientific networks.

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https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/day-26-altmetric-assessment/#respondMon, 22 Feb 2016 12:00:49 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5427]]>Today, we’re launching a week’s worth of tools for assessment – measuring the impact that a scholarly work has in the community. This first tool we’ll look at is Altmetric, which may already be familiar to you with its rainbow-colored wreath logo.1

What exactly do altmetrics measure? They track mentions from blogs, mainstream media, Facebook and YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Reddit, and other socially connected platforms like LinkedIn and Mendeley. Many publishers have implemented systems like Altmetric as a service to their authors and as an added measure of their journals’ impact. Altmetrics can provide a particularly valuable window into the much broader impact and reach of many open access journals. Altmetrics don’t replace conventional measures such as citation counts (still the gold standard for scholarly articles), but can provide an additional, more complete, and more real-time indicator of the amount of ‘buzz’ generated around an article or other publication.

Interested in the altmetric ‘score’ for a particular article? Altmetric has a handy bookmarklet that lets you quickly view the altmetric data for any article – just navigate to the article, click the button on your toolbar, and view the results.

Here, for example, is the Altmetric ‘badge’ generated by the bookmarklet for the very recent article describing the exciting discovery of evidence for a ‘Planet Nine’ in our solar system, published January 20, 2016 – just over four weeks ago! – in The Astronomical Journal. The badge shows an altmetric score of 4052, distributed among news outlets, blogs, tweets, Facebook mentions, and many other sources. Clicking on the ‘details’ link takes you to the full Altmetric detail page.

Next time you see that rainbow colored wreath, you’ll know where it’s coming from and what it means. Next up … the Eigenfactor Project!

‘Altmetrics’ as a general term is a newly coined expression referring to the measurement of scholarly impact via non-traditional sources; ‘Altmetric’ as a proper noun refers to a specific company’s product, a system for capturing and representing altmetric data.

Filed under: 30toolsfor30days, Publishing, Tech Tips Tagged: 30toolsfor30days]]>https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/day-26-altmetric-assessment/feed/0altmetric_logo_600pxquigleyjanealtmetric_logo_600pxAltmetric.snippetDay 25 – Figshare (Outreach)https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/day-25-figshare-outreach/
https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/day-25-figshare-outreach/#respondFri, 19 Feb 2016 07:00:00 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5409]]>In 2011, Mark Hahnel was a PhD student in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. He wanted to share research outputs with other scholars in formats other than a traditional peer-reviewed paper, including datasets, media, and negative results. When he couldn’t find a platform that would do this, Hahnel created Figshare.

Figshare is a digital repository that can assist researchers with sharing the results of their research. Beyond allowing researchers to share papers, Figshare enables users to share any kind of academic research output in any format including figures, datasets, videos, images, code, theses, posters, and presentations.

Outputs published in Figshare are:

Citable, since they are assigned a DOI

Shareable, since they are licensed under Creative Commons

Discoverable, since you can include tags and metadata that are searchable

Figshare is an advocate for open science and is helping to facilitate the sharing of information between researchers. It also seeks to provide authors with credit for their work, by making their research outputs citable and by tracking views and downloads for all outputs published on Figshare. For example, the poster that inspired this series of blog posts, 101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication – the Changing Research Workflow by Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman has received over 11,000 views and over 2,000 downloads on Figshare.

Next week is the final week of this series, and we will examine five tools for assessment.

Filed under: 30toolsfor30days, Kresge, Publishing, Tech Tips Tagged: 30toolsfor30days]]>https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/day-25-figshare-outreach/feed/0figsharekatieharding14Figshare-Colour-LogoDay 24 – SlideShare (Outreach)https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/day-24-slideshare-outreach/
https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/day-24-slideshare-outreach/#respondThu, 18 Feb 2016 07:00:00 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5398]]>Today we take a look at SlideShare, an enormous source of knowledge, and a great tool for both finding and sharing information.

SlideShare is a slide hosting service that you can use to easily upload and share presentations, infographics, documents, and videos. In addition to making slideshow presentations viewable from within your browser, SlideShare also provides analytics, so that you can understand how your viewers are finding your content. Acquired by LinkedIn in 2012, SlideShare makes it easy to connect your Slideshare account to LinkedIn, as well as Facebook and Google+.

With over 18 million uploads, searching for content in SlideShare can be a bit overwhelming, but users have the option to search or to explore by topic, with topics such as Environment, Science, Software, and even Presentations & Public Speaking. SlideShare emphasizes the value of content that is visually interesting and well-designed, to make it more engaging and easier to learn from than a traditional document with lots of text.

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https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/day-23-the-conversation-outreach/#respondWed, 17 Feb 2016 07:00:00 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5395]]>While many of the tools that academics use focus on sharing information with other researchers, today’s tool offers a means for outreach to the general public. The Conversation describes itself as “a collaboration between editors and academics to provide informed news analysis and commentary that’s free to read and republish”. This not-for-profit organization was started in Australia in 2011, and several other editions have developed since then, including the United States edition which launched in 2014.

The Conversation is based on the principle of evidence-based journalism. Academics and researchers who are experts in a field write articles to be shared directly with the public. Articles published by The Conversation are licensed under Creative Commons, so they can be shared and re-published. The Conversation claims to reach 23 million users each month via Creative Commons republication.

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https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/day-22-academia-edu-researchgate-outreach/#respondTue, 16 Feb 2016 07:00:00 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5387]]>Today we take a look at Academia.edu and ResearchGate, two popular social networks for academics. Each has millions of members. The two platforms are similar in many ways, and if you use one and which one you choose will likely depend on your personal preferences and the preferences of other researchers in your discipline.

Academia.edu and ResearchGate are very similar in terms of functionality. With both sites, you can create a profile and upload your publications. Note that it is important to be aware of agreements you have with publishers regarding your publications, to avoid violations of copyright. If you choose to make your profile public, then other members of the Academia.edu or ResearchGate community will be able to view your profile and your publications. The platform will provide you with data indicating how many times your profile and publications have been viewed.

These sites are intended to make research more social. You can use them to find your peers and discover researchers working in your discipline, to help other researchers find you, and to access articles that interests you. You can also use them to engage in conversation with other researchers and expand your professional network.

While Academia.edu and ResearchGate can be great for sharing your work with other members of these communities, you may also want to consider depositing your publications in an open access repository like the Dartmouth Academic Commons (DAC), to ensure that they are available to anyone.

Google Scholar is a popular tool among academics, and with Google Scholar Citations you can create a profile to make your publications easier to find in Google Scholar. This is especially helpful if there are other scholars with names that are similar to yours, or if you have published under different variations of your name.

You can create a profile using a Google account. You will add your publications to your profile from Google Scholar, and choose whether to let Google automatically add new publications or to add new publications manually. You can also add more information about yourself to share with other researchers, including your affiliation and a link to your homepage.

Once you’ve created a profile, you can choose to make it public or private. A public profile will help other researchers find your work. When they search for your name in Google Scholar, a link to your author profile will appear at the top of the page. Similarly, if a researcher finds one of your publications, they can click on your name to view your author profile in Google Scholar.

If you don’t want to make your profile public, a private profile can be useful too. In either case, Google Scholar can help you keep a record of your publications, and will keep track of citations to your articles in Google Scholar. It will provide you with indicators of your research impact such as a graph showing the number of citations your publications receive over time and your h-index.

Below is an example of a Google Scholar profile created for Albert Einstein.

One outstanding feature of PLOS ONE is their article level metrics (ALM). ALM allows researchers to assess and track their research impact by providing indicators on usage, citations, social media coverage, and activity ratings for every article published in PLOS ONE. The metrics tab on each article provides a snapshot (check out an example of a highly cited Dartmouth article) and the full dataset is updated monthly.

Interested in a specific publishing in a discipline-specific journal? PLOS also publishes a suite of OA journals in the sciences and medicine including PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Pathogens and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

On Monday we will be moving on to the Outreach phase of our research process. Check back then for the first of five highlighted Outreach tools!

Filed under: 30toolsfor30days, Kresge, Publishing, Tech Tips Tagged: 30toolsfor30days]]>https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/day-20-plos-one-publishing/feed/0plosloraleligdonplosList-of-ALMs-without-title2-1024x344Day 19 – Creative Commons (Publishing)https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/day-19-creative-commons-publishing/
https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/day-19-creative-commons-publishing/#respondThu, 11 Feb 2016 05:24:40 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5342]]>One way to increase your work’s impact is to give others the right to share, use, and build upon a work you have created. Publishing under a Creative Commons license allows you to do that.

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that “enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools”. Their free, easy-to-use licenses work alongside copyright to grant permissions on how you allow your work to be used – essentially changing from “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved”. All Creative Commons licenses range from the most permissive, CC-BY, which allows other to distribute, remix, and build upon your work – even commercially – to the most restrictive, CC-BY-NC-ND which prohibits commercial use and modifying your work in anyway. The CC website provides a tool to easily choose your desired license, define how you would like others to attribute you, and create a human and machine-readable license mark to embed on webpages or include on non-digital works.

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https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/day-18-sherparomeo-publishing/#respondWed, 10 Feb 2016 05:17:07 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5326]]>By now, we hope that you are getting excited about open access and all the tools that can support it in your workflow. Today’s tool, SHERPA/RoMEO, is one great tool to be explored.

RoMEO is a searchable database of publisher’s copyright & self-archiving policies. Each entry for the 22,000 peer-reviewed journals provides a summary of the publisher’s policy, including what version of an article can be deposited, where it can be deposited, and any conditions that are attached to that deposit. This helps academic authors (you!) determine which journals allow you to post and showcase your work and which journals prevent you from using your own articles in this way. RoMEO employs a simple color system to illustrate the publisher’s policy from “can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher’s version/PDF” (green) to “archiving not formally supported” (white). You can search the database by journal, publisher, or by color to easily see which journals are the best match for your work.

In addition to publisher policies, SHERPA provides information on research funders’ open access policies in SHERPA/JULIET. This database allows you to see a funders’ open access publishing, archiving, and data policies all in one place. Very handy when thinking about compliance.
On day 20 we will be highlighting a green SHERPA/RoMEO journal… check back to see which one makes our list!

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https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/day-16-peerj-publishing/#respondTue, 09 Feb 2016 20:27:09 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5294]]>PeerJis an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in the biological, medical, and computer sciences. It an exciting alternative to publishing in traditional journals by providing a new scholarly publishing experience. PeerJ is open – not only do authors retain their copyright, they can publish their work in an open access journal without paying exorbitant author fees. PeerJ’s pricing model allows authors to either pay a reasonable per article price (less than $700!) or buy a basic membership for a fee. There is also the possibility for optional open peer review! PeerJ is indexed in PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, etc which allows for high discoverability. You can check out all the benefits of publishing in PeerJ here.

But wait… there’s more! PeerJ also offers a preprint service called PeerJ PrePrints. PeerJ PrePrints accepts research articles, “posters”, literature review articles, case studies, case reports, etc. You can use the service to solicit feedback, work in revisions, and publish updates. Once the publication is finalized, you can either submit the manuscript to PeerJ or another journal of your choice.

But how do you find other open access journals, you ask? Stay turned for tomorrow’s tool!

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https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/day-15-github-publishing/#respondMon, 08 Feb 2016 20:20:21 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5284]]>It’s already week 4! If you have been following along, we are halfway through our research workflow and will now start thinking about publishing tools for all the amazing work that has been discovered, analyzed, and written. This week we will be focusing on a variety of tools that support different aspects of the publishing workflow including GitHub, PeerJ, Sherpa/RoMEO, Creative Commons, and PLOS ONE.

While most people know GitHub for software code, today we are exploring it as a data publishing option. GitHub offers hosting for software projects, based on the GIT version control system. It offers both plans for private repositories and free accounts for public projects. The free service for open-source projects makes GitHub a great choice for publishing data sets! Its other features also support data publishing – the built-in version control, the ability to “fork” or copy an existing repository in order to analyze the data without modifying the original, and the process of “pull requests” to contact the original data owner to accept or adopt discovered changes.

GitHub shares its best practices with the data community by partnering with governmental organizations and “plug and play” data tools providers. One successful example of this is the White House’s Project Open Data, an online public repository used to foster collaboration and promote open data practices, hosted on GitHub.

It’s easy to get started: visit GitHub to sign up for a free account, create a new repository, or explore an existing dataset!

WebCite is an on-demand archiving system for web references (websites, blogs, or other kinds of Internet-accessible digital objects), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited web material will remain available to readers in the future. It makes snapshots of internet content as it existed at a certain point in time, and creates persistent URLs to those snapshots.

WebCite is similar to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, which also captures series of website snapshots, and allows you to submit a URL for archiving on demand.

Here, for example, is an archived image of the Dartmouth website as it existed on July 26, 2012.

Archiving in WebCite (or in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine) allows anybody – particularly authors and editors of scholarly papers and other publications – to cite a stable version of a web page, blog post, wiki page or other web document, making it “citable” in an academic context.

That’s it for tools that support your writing – next week, we take a look at the next research phase – publication.

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https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/04/day-14-zotero-writing/#respondThu, 04 Feb 2016 11:00:58 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5174]]>Zotero is a standout member of the family of reference manager systems – it’s user-friendly, flexible and intuitive, with a lot of features that make it easy to love. It’s a free, open-source research tool that helps you easily collect and organize references, cite them in documents or in standalone bibliographies, and share them in a variety of ways.

There are several different ways to install and use Zotero – the most seamless is the Zotero browser extension for Firefox, which integrates with amazing ease into your research workflow – you can capture single or multiple references with one or two clicks. A Zotero ‘Standalone’ option is available if you prefer to use Chrome or Safari.

Some of Zotero’s user-friendly features include the ability to drag and drop citations from your Zotero library onto documents or emails, where they appear automatically formatted; a feature that allows you to drop pdfs into the Zotero pane to add them to your library (and Zotero can then, in many cases, retrieve the metadata for that unrecognizable pdf, rename it something like Anderson.JACS.2007.pdf, and create a parent record for the reference). Zotero can be set to save pdfs, when available, along with the citation, and will save and attach snapshots of web pages and other web documents. You can customize Zotero with your institution’s article link resolver, so when you’re returning to an article, Zotero will take you through your institution’s licensed pathway.

Finally, one particularly nice aspect of Zotero is its community of users; Zotero has its roots in the open source culture, and much support can be found in its active and devoted user forum. Zotero documentation, also, is well organized and user-friendly.

Tomorrow, we’ll wrap of the week’s focus on writing with a look at WebCite.

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. Like all reference managers, Mendeley allows you to easily save, organize, and share the references you come across in your research, and then to cite them in your papers, formatting your reference list in one of many different styles.

Capturing citations is easy, with a browser bookmarklet that quickly saves document information and (if available) the associated full-text documents from an article database or from a publisher’s site.

Mendeley has two modes of use – the desktop client interface that offers an easy way to view, organize, and annotate references, including an excellent, smoothly integrated pdf reader; and the web version; the two versions can be synced across multiple devices so you always have access to your library of references.

Mendeley Web is where the really intriguing aspects of cloud-based, socially networked research come into play. Mendeley allows you to interact with researchers based on shared interests; connect with other Mendeley users who share your research interests and ‘follow’ their Mendeley feed (papers they’ve added, updates to their Mendeley profile, etc.)

Get personalized article suggestions from the Mendeley ‘catalog’ of references based on your Mendeley activity.

Create groups to share resources with others; groups can be closed or open, allowing you to collaborate on projects, join existing groups on topics of interest, or host open groups to discover new research and make connections with others who share your research interests.

Start discussion topics and follow feeds of recent activity in groups of interest

Mendeley Web has a ‘Suggest’ tab that recommends articles based on those in your library, based on your profile and what’s trending in your discipline, based on what you read last, – an intriguing recommender feature.

Of course you can use your regular search systems and preferred article databases, but you might be interested in searching through the Mendeley catalog of papers as well. Article records in Mendeley also provide social media tools and readership stats (how many Mendeley readers have read an article and other info).

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https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/day-12-overleaf-writing/#respondTue, 02 Feb 2016 11:00:53 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5170]]>Today we continue with our tour of tools that support your writing with a look at Overleaf(formerly known as writeLaTeX). Overleaf is a free, web-based LaTeX and rich text collaborative writing and publishing tool. Like Authorea (featured in yesterday’s blog post), it supports real-time collaboration in your browser, with real-time previews, so you can see your formatted document write away – just write in the left pane, and view your formatted document on the right. Comments and notes are supported, and there’s a package for presentations, as well. Templates help you get up and running in no time.

Use a ‘secret link’ to share your project with co-authors. Your project is saved every few seconds, so you can view and restore previous versions, if you need to.

Within your project, you can upload and download figures, bibliographies, and custom styles.

A link between Overleaf and Git is available (beta) – push and pull changes between your project in Overleaf and its Git repo clone.

Overleaf is a lot like Authorea – perhaps a bit simpler to use, but lacking some of Authorea’s deeper integrations and more sophisticated or advanced features.

For a thoughtful discussion of the future of the academic ‘paper’ that mentions several collaborative writing platforms and other innovative tools, take a look at this article:

Authorea is a web-based collaborative writing platform with a robust version control system (Git) that supports writing in many formats – LaTeX and Markdown, HTML, Javascript, and more; it’s been called “Google Docs for Scientists.” Some of Authorea’s benefits include …

Makes collaborative authoring easy

Authorea supports multiple authors – each section is locked independently while it’s being worked on

there’s good support for comments, public and private, for feedback and discussion

every Authorea paper is a Git repo; version control allows you to track changes.

authors can easily include data and code in their papers, like IPython Notebooks; or interactive figures such as diagrams based on an external source like CartoDB or on your own javascript library.

Finally, Authorea supports and encourages Open Science through its business model – choose to create your articles as public documents and promote greater openness, transparency, sharing and re-use within the scientific community; or collaborate within a closed group of co-authors. Our license with Authorea allows Dartmouth users to create up to 50 closed (private, shared only with invited collaborators) articles (more than the free account allows) – so be sure to sign up with your Dartmouth email address!

We’ll continue looking at tools that support writing for the rest of the week. Tune in tomorrow, and for the rest of the week, for quick intros to Overleaf, Mendeley, Zotero, and WebCite.

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https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/day-10-jupyter-analysis/#respondFri, 29 Jan 2016 06:00:14 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5157]]>Research can be expressed in many different formats. Scientists often use images, graphs and visualizations to convey their results. They may use code to compute results, use equations to express relationships, and use text to give meaning to the results that they present.

The Jupyter notebook is a web application that integrates executable code with equations, images, videos, visualizations, and text in a single document. Jupyter supports over 40 different programming languages, including Python, Octave, Julia, and R. Once you’ve created a Jupyter notebook, you can share it via email, Dropbox, GitHub, or using the Jupyter Notebook Viewer.

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https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/day-9-ropensci-analysis/#respondThu, 28 Jan 2016 06:00:06 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5143]]>Open data has become increasingly common in academia in the past few years, as funding agencies have moved to support open access to the results of scientific research.

rOpenSci is one of a number of groups that support open data. It aims “to develop and maintain sustainable software tools that allow researchers to access, visualize, document, and publish open data on the Web”. rOpenSci consists of a number of packages for working with data that can be used with the open source R statistical programming environment.

Some of the different things you can do with packages in rOpenSci include:

Retrieving data from DataOne, Dataverse, Figshare, and other sources of open data

Filed under: 30toolsfor30days, Kresge, Publishing, Research, Tech Tips Tagged: 30toolsfor30days]]>https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/day-9-ropensci-analysis/feed/0ropenscikatieharding14ropensciDay 8 – CartoDB (Analysis)https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/day-8-cartodb-analysis/
https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/day-8-cartodb-analysis/#respondWed, 27 Jan 2016 06:00:34 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=5139]]>CartoDB is an easy to use, online mapping platform that allows you to analyze and visualize geospatial data. Since it is designed to be accessible to users without any training in geographic information systems (GIS), anyone can use CartoDB to display location-based data on an interactive map.

To get started, simply upload a geospatial data file in any format to CartoDB. If you want, you can upload additional datasets to create a map with multiple layers. Choose from a variety of different visualizations and base maps. Once you’ve created a map, share it with others! CartoDB lets you link to your visualization, embed it in a webpage, or copy it to another application.

CartoDB boasts a number of impressive users, including Google, Twitter, NASA, and National Geographic. Take a look at the CartoDB gallery for examples of maps created by CartoDB users.

The process to upload data and create a graph or other visualization in Plotly is simple. You can upload an Excel file, enter your data directly into the Plotly web application, or make use of Plotly APIs for Python, R, Matlab, and JavaScript. If you use LaTeX, you can use Plotly to create visualizations with LaTeX typesetting. Once you’ve created a visualization, you can embed it in a blog or website, share the link with others, or export the visualization to a common format such as .png or .pdf.

Plotly partners with organizations in industries that include aerospace, finance, energy, government, journalism, and research and development. Check out examples of the different chart types you can create with Plotly by visiting the Plotly feed. One example, State Water Use by Category (2010) by Plotly user @isaacfab is displayed below.

An electronic lab notebook is a tool that lets you record, analyze, and archive your lab notes digitally. Electronic lab notebooks offer promise in making notes searchable, storing information, and providing security for your notes and data. There are a number of different electronic lab notebooks available, most of which offer a free account for limited features and storage space, or more features and space for a cost. Some examples include LabGuru, LabArchives, and DoCollab.

Hivebench is a collaborative electronic lab notebook that allows you to manage your data and lab notes together with other members of your team. Your notebook is protected by such measures as data encryption, authentication, regular backups, and electronic signatures to verify that data were collected by you. Hivebench offers a free collaborative lab notebook with 10 GB of storage, open to up to 10 people through its “Open Science” plan, or unlimited storage and collaborators for a fee.

Web of Science is a well-known and well-used tool to discover information. With its database of over 1 billion searchable, cited references, it often is the first stop for literature discovery. The powerful search, forwards and backwards citation searching, and the graphical visualizations allows you to expand the scope of your research and uncover significant topics and trends.

Other less-explored but equally as powerful resources reside on Web of Science. Built off its comprehensive index, Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators offer additional ways to discover information. Journal Citation Reports helps you discover the highest ranked (by impact factor) journals in hundreds of categories and allows you to compare journals or create customized indicators. Useful when you want to discover where to publish that next article! Essential Science Indicators helps you determine the influential individuals, institutions, papers, publications, and countries in your field of study — as well as emerging research areas that could impact you work.

Access these resources from Web of Science and see what new knowledge you can discover!

On Monday, we will diving into 5 tools to support the Analysis phase of the research cycle. Check back then!

F1000Prime – the most effective personalized literature service for biological sciences and medicine (excluding librarians, of course!)

F100Prime is a literature discovery tool from the Faculty of 1000 (F1000). Serving primarily life scientists, F1000 is composed of 5,000 senior scientists, leading experts, and faculty members in all areas of biology and medicine. F100Prime help yous discover literature from a powerful algorithm that suggests articles relevant to your research and recommended by the F1000 members. The Faculty recommends the most important articles, rating them and providing short explanations for their selections.

In addition to article recommendations (searchable or browsable by faculty or field), it provides article rankings from ‘top 10’ to ‘most viewed’ to ‘hidden jewels’. Test the free trial and let us know what you think.

BONUS! F1000 supports other research phases too! F1000Research is a suite of tools for writing, collaborating, and reference management, and F1000Workspace is an open science publishing platform with transparent peer review. Check them out!
We’re going to close out the discovery tools week tomorrow with a new way to use a familiar tool…

CHORUS bills itself as “an innovative and cost-effective approach to delivering public access to scholarly content reporting from funded research”. To support the discovery phase of the research process, its search tool enables discovery of articles reporting on funded research produced by its long list of prestigious member partners. Using CHORUS helps you by optimizing discovery via a common search engine and enables access to article reporting on funded research. It also directs search results to the best available version of the article, and provides you with context, tools, and correction/retraction information.

Start your CHORUS search by entering a funder name (such as NSF or Sloan Foundation) and refine by directorates and division, research categories, publishers, journals, or years. This is powerful tool to discover and gain insight on funded research that is being produced. Try a search today at http://search.chorusaccess.org/
Stay tuned for Thursdays pick!

Data is the cornerstone of scholarly research. The recent federal mandates to make publicly funded research publicly available has created an emerging suite of new tools and resources to help researchers find, access, and reuse data. DataCiteis a user-friendly tool to help make data more accessible and useful. Created to develop and support methods to locate, identify, and cite data, DataCite supports the standards behind persistent identifiers for data to make research objects visible and accessible.

Through collaboration with a network of global members, DataCite:

“support researchers by helping them to find, identify, and cite research data and other research objects with confidence;

support data centres by providing persistent identifiers for datasets, workflows and standards for data publication;

support journal publishers by enabling research articles to be linked to the underlying data/objects.”

‘Discovery’ can have several meanings when discussing the research process. From the discovery of information and data to the discovery of funded research and new opportunities, there are many innovative tools to assist in this first stage of the cycle. This week we will be highlighting 5 different discovery tools that we hope that you’ll explore and find useful. These tools include OAIster, DataCite, CHORUS, F1000Prime and Web of Science.

Our first highlighted discovery tool is OAIster, OCLC’s scholarly search engine that catalogs millions of digital resources from thousands of contributors and institutional repositories. Started as a retrieval service for publicly available digital resources, OAIster grew into a union catalog of millions of records representing a wealth open access resources. It was built by harvesting items from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

Visit http://oaister.worldcat.org/ to search this free database. It is a great tool to discover the wealth of open access scholarly resources that are available.
Up tomorrow…. DataCite!

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https://krescook.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/30-tools-for-30-days/#respondThu, 14 Jan 2016 12:00:59 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=4999]]>Join us! for a midwinter tour of research tools, sites, apps and programs that might bring some zing to your research workflow. Beginning next Monday, for each of the next 30 days we’re going to highlight a different research tool in a series of blog posts; some may be familiar, others new and untried.

Each week’s set of featured tools will relate to a distinct phase of the research cycle – Discovery, Analysis, Writing, Publication, Outreach, and Assessment.

Sound interesting? stay tuned … and let us know if any of these tools look like a good fit with your research workflows. Take the survey (open till February 10, so don’t delay) – what tools do you use in your research and scholarly communication? The survey was developed by researchers at the University of Utrecht who are attempting to chart the changing landscape of scholarly communication.

The ranking is determined based on which research papers published in the last year have received the most attention from the sources tracked by Altmetric – including mainstream media sites, Wikipedia, blogs, social networks, post-publication peer-review forums, and online reference managers, among others. The list can be filtered by institution, journal, access type and subject category.

Notables:

Dartmouth has two papers in the top 100!

42% of papers that made the list were published under a gold Open Access license.

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https://krescook.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/open-data-in-chemistry-acs-figshare-partner-to-increase-oa/#respondSun, 08 Nov 2015 18:02:09 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=4977]]>Archiving and accessing chemistry data has always been a challenge – and recent funder mandates have made open data practices that much more important. ACS & Figshare just announced a new partnership to support open access to supporting data. Check out their new portal. Hopefully more publishers will quickly follow suit!

“The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society recently announced a strategic partnership with Figshare (http://figshare.com), an open repository that promotes broad discoverability of scientific research data. The ACS-Figshare partnership will not only provide for improved archiving and access to open data sets and other supporting information that often accompany articles published in the Society’s preeminent portfolio of peer-reviewed research journals, but will also better enable reader interaction with, and citation of, such ancillary information of importance to the scientific record.

ACS Authors can submit information in more than 100 file formats, including video and multimedia files, tabular data, and crystallographic data, to accompany their peer-reviewed articles. Open access to such supporting data within any ACS journal will be freely available to all users via the Society’s publications website (http://pubs.acs.org). ACS is also facilitating automated deposition of Supporting Information (SI) files to a secure hosting environment, free from any restrictions on size and format. An additional benefit of the ACS-Figshare collaboration will be contributing to broader data discoverability, as the SI material will be searchable via Google and other major search engines and Web referral pathways.

Figshare availability will be rolled out in the coming months across the ACS Publications portfolio of journals. Researchers can access the ACS Publications/Figshare portal at http://acs.figshare.com and preview now the interactive viewer available for an ACS Editors’ Choice open access article recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/jacs.5b03280.”

Filed under: Chemistry, Kresge, Publishing, Research Tagged: ACS, Open data]]>https://krescook.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/open-data-in-chemistry-acs-figshare-partner-to-increase-oa/feed/0Screen Shot 2015-11-04 at 08.02.14loraleligdonScreen Shot 2015-11-04 at 08.02.14.pngNew Exhibit: Paintings by Anne Rosehttps://krescook.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/new-exhibit-paintings-by-anne-rose/
https://krescook.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/new-exhibit-paintings-by-anne-rose/#respondMon, 02 Nov 2015 20:10:09 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=4973]]>Kresge Library’s newest Art Exhibit features another talented local artist, Anne Rose of Thetford, Vermont. The art featured is a sampling of recent work and includes oil paintings that “comment on our crowded, impersonal and often unfair world,” according to Anne Rose. There are also watercolors and three landscapes done with pastels. Please check out our hours of operation, and come to see this beautiful exhibit!

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https://krescook.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/advanced-research-skills-new-workshop-series-for-undgrads-in-the-sciences/#respondThu, 17 Sep 2015 18:36:41 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=4955]]>This fall, Kresge library is excited to present the Advanced Research Skills series for Undergraduates in the Sciences. This four-part workshop series introduces the concepts and tools needed to competently conduct undergraduate research at Dartmouth. Each workshop is designed to support a different part of the research process.

Becoming a Researcher (9/29)
The series kicks off with a discussion on what it takes to be an undergraduate researcher at Dartmouth. A panel of graduate students and UGAR staff will discuss how to jump-start your undergraduate research experience. In addition, an overview of the research process and research support resources will be provided by the library.

Managing Information (10/6)

Finding, managing, and synthesizing scholarly literature is key to determining the current state of knowledge on your research topic. This session covers how to search for relevant literature, and the tools for managing and organizing your articles, citations, and research. Well-organized information allows you to validate your research and show how it contributes to the field

Managing Research Data (10/13)

Utilizing best practices and principles in managing your research data sets you up for success when it’s time to complete your project. Understanding the role of data in research and the basics of research data management (including file naming, collection, storage, and workflows) creates good habits to help you succeed. This session provides the strategies and tools to get started with data management.

Creating Effective Posters & Proposals (10/20)

Being able to effectively communicate your research helps you get noticed. Publishers, funders, and conferences require persuasive and well-designed abstracts and posters. Both good design principles and resources to create effective posters in PPT, Keynote and LaTeX will be discussed, along with the art of crafting a strong abstract.

Students who attend all four sessions and complete a reflection on the series will receive an Advanced Research Skills Certificate from Dartmouth College Library.

Filed under: Astronomy, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Kresge, Library - General, Math, Physics, Research, Science, Workshops Tagged: Kresge]]>https://krescook.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/advanced-research-skills-new-workshop-series-for-undgrads-in-the-sciences/feed/0ARS_F15_Credly_badge1loraleligdonARS_F15_Credly_badge1New Exhibit: Paintings by Jonathan Rosehttps://krescook.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/new-exhibit-paintings-by-jonathan-rose/
https://krescook.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/new-exhibit-paintings-by-jonathan-rose/#respondWed, 02 Sep 2015 16:22:14 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=4949]]>Kresge Library is excited about our new art exhibit we installed for Fall term. Come and view the exceptional works by Jonathan Rose of North Thetford, Vermont. Many of these are new pieces, and include large, beautiful paintings of local areas such as the Cornish Fair in New Hampshire, and Treasure Island on Lake Fairlee

A new journal in mathematics, Annals of K-Theory, launched this month with its first issue; the journ­al is owned by the K-The­ory Found­a­tion and pub­lished by MSP (Mathematical Sciences Publishers). Led by a pres­ti­gi­ous ed­it­or­i­al board, the journal will be freely accessible through 2015 and available by subscription from 2016 forward.

In 2016, the Dartmouth Library will subscribe not only to the Annals of K-Theory but to an expanded collection of journals published by the European Mathematical Society through a joint offering of the two publishers.

Readers interested in the history of this journal, – its antecedents in the journals K-Theory and Journal of K-Theory, and the controversies leading to the resignations of the editorial boards of those journals, are referred to the links below:

Mathematician Peter Woit has chronicled the history of the journals (K-Theory and Journal of K-Theory) in his blog, Not Even Wrong:
Job Action at the Journal of K-theory | Not Even Wrong, Sept. 20th, 2014https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=7188 (accessed 8.23.15).

An 2012 article in the Economist, though it predates the 2014 controversy surrounding the Springer Journal of K-Theory, provides a nice overview of unrest among several editorial boards of mathematics journals, and the tensions that can and have arisen between traditional models of journal publishing and more recent, and arguably more sustainable, models developed primarily by scholars themselves.
The price of information | The Economist. Feb. 4th, 2012.http://www.economist.com/node/21545974 (accessed 8.23.15).

“I naturally was very incredulous of the theory … that this great hole in the earth’s surface had been produced by the impact of an iron body falling out of space …”

This week marks the 155th birthday of Daniel Moreau Barringer, the American geologist who explored the Barringer crater (then called Coon Mountain) in Arizona, and formulated the hypothesis that it was formed by a meteorite impact. His conclusions, published in 1905 in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, were controversial, and it was not until the 1950s that the impact hypothesis was fully accepted by geologists. (The prevailing theory, held by members of the United States Geological Survey, was that the crater had been produced by a steam explosion.) The subsequent calculations of astronomer Forest Ray Moulton, presented at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in 1930, indicated that the force of the impact would have been sufficient to vaporize the meteorite. Moulton’s conclusions explained the scarcity of physical evidence at the site, and greatly strengthened the acceptance of Barringer’s hypothesis.

Filed under: Kresge]]>https://krescook.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/happy-155th-daniel-barringer/feed/0quigleyjaneUSGS Information on the Nepal Earthquake of April 25https://krescook.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/usgs-information-on-the-nepal-earthquake-of-april-25/
https://krescook.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/usgs-information-on-the-nepal-earthquake-of-april-25/#respondWed, 13 May 2015 12:53:27 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=4912]]>The U.S. Geological Survey maintains a page with information and updates on the Nepal earthquake and aftershocks that includes an interactive map and downloadable .kml files for Google Earth viewing. Separate sections provide scientific data and details.

In honor of Earth Day, the U.S. Geological Survey has published a great overview of the earth- and environment-related issues and challenges facing our planet. Skim through these dozen slides for a quick review and some amazing images.Filed under: Kresge]]>https://krescook.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/happy-earth-day/feed/0USGSEarthDay2015quigleyjaneUSGSEarthDay2015Math Drives Careershttps://krescook.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/math-drives-careers/
https://krescook.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/math-drives-careers/#respondWed, 01 Apr 2015 16:14:20 +0000http://krescook.wordpress.com/?p=4826]]>This year’s theme for Mathematics Awareness Month is “Math Drives Careers!”
Leave us a comment to this question:

What math class(es) have you taken or are taking that support your career choice?

I’ll start. By the time I finished my third year of undergrad, I knew I wanted to be an academic science librarian. Although it’s hard to see a direct impact, the classes I took shaped the way I think and certainly has shaped the way I get things done. The most difficult class I had was Chris Gole’s Analysis course (read the syllabus here) and I learned how to recreate math. It was a class that taught me how to think and write mathematically, in addition to building skills in teamwork and a drive to continue learning after the course finished. Fun fact: this was the class I first learned how to use LaTeX and now I teach it here. There are several other mathematicians who have inspired me, but I will leave that for another post.

Also, don’t miss out on the first National Math Festival!

“Dedicated to discovering the delight and power of mathematics in everyday life”